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Climate Change and Just Energy Transition in Africa
Author(s)
Kagiso Innocent Makalela
Phuti Ignatius Moloto
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DOI:10.17265/1548-6591/2023.05.003
Affiliation(s)
University of Mpumalanga, Nespruit, The Republic of South Africa
[email protected], Polokwane, The Republic of South Africa
ABSTRACT
In order to achieve the
climate change in the African countries, the governments both nationally and
internationally have the opportunity to implement their climate and
sustainability goals more coherently. Such coherent requires the coordination
of interdependent policies across different policy fields, sectors, and actors.
The purpose of this study was to explore how governments in African countries
design and implement synergic solutions to both international agendas.
Therefore, this paper is pure conceptual and has followed the secondary data
and solicits salient data arguments on climate change and just energy
transition in Africa. There are challenges in overcoming environmental,
economic, and social burdens of the coals being phased out, especially related
to jobs and inequality (SDGs 8, 10) and water, energy, food, and land nexus
(SDGs 2, 6, 7, 15). Countries with different political, social, and economic
backgrounds strive to manage such a transition. African countries when
designing just energy transition pathway such as ensuring inclusiveness in
designing making thoroughly assessing social, economic, and environmental
impacts and adequately coordinating accurate actors the local, provincial, and
national level. The key concepts of “energy justice” and “just energy
transition” have become highly prominent in recent years. Previous studies have
addressed the issues of energy justice (Sovacool & Dwarkin, 2015; Jenkins
et al., 2016); we understand “energy justice” as a goal of achieving equity in
the global energy system by taking into account social, economic, environmental
and political effects of participating in this system.
KEYWORDS
climate change, just transition energy, coal phase out and SDGs climate
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